If you are unlucky to have not so good sound implementation of motherboard, buying sound card or external USB DAC may improve sound quality. Motherboard built-in audio sound quality varies from superb level to very bad (constant hiss and/or intermittent noise heard). Sound output device is selectable by OS provided settings user interface or userland API. Do you need a dedicated card for sound, or are you fine to just run audio through your computer's motherboard Sound cards aren't a big deal like they were in the 90s and early 00s PC scene, and they're now viewed as non-essential kit, unless you're using your computer primarily for audio manipulation or serious gaming. No, you dont need to buy a sound card you can either use the integrated audio processor on your motherboard with a variety of outputs, or the one on your.
To add sound rendering(output) or capturing(input) ports to PC.
